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Starting on Friday, October 9,
the Atlantic Conference will feature outstanding speakers who will talk
about early trans-Atlantic contact. In other words, Columbus did not
discover America, he was just one of many who had stepped upon the
shores
of North and South America over the centuries.

Some presentations have already been uploaded to the site, but the live
guests will start on Friday Oct. 9 and continue throughout the weekend.
Please visit this site to become a part of this incredible conference: http://www.atlanticconference.org/index.html

The Atlantic Conference is a not-for-profit company whose sole aim is
to further the study of early trans-Atlantic contact. This year, the
planning is being handled by Rick Osmon and Steve St. Clair.

Since the 1933 discovery of a flint spearhead unearthed at Clovis, New
Mexico, scientists, academics and just about everyone else became
entrenched in the idea that North Americans arrived on this continent
exclusively via the Bering Strait land bridge. The mammoth skeleton
that lay beside the Clovis point was carbon-dated to 11,500 years ago
and there seemed to be no other find that pointed to older human
habitation in North America. This theory became so accepted that
archaeologists stopped looking for older artifacts.

But, all along, our native friends have told a different story. They
speak of many waves of migration between the peoples of Europe and
those of North America, and it was not just a one way street. People
may have gone both ways.

Many different people throughout the world have, in the past couple
decades, arrived at conclusions that point to ancient contact from both
sides of the Atlantic.

· Native tradition states that there
were 3 waves of early migration across the Atlantic – the last in the
14th century - and that the populations of Europe and North America are
mixed. Also, the migrations went in both directions. DNA evidence could
be a way of solving this hypothesis.

· A new report of a skeleton found in
Norway showing a distinctly Incan feature is causing quite a bit of
debate. Click here.

· Pre-Clovis explorers crossed the
Atlantic about 17.000 years ago, settling in what is now South Carolina.

· Cliff paintings and stone carvings in
Scandinavia and also in North America seem to point to a connection.

· The Kennewick Man was living in what
is now Washington State about 5000-9000 years ago.

· Hebrew explorers may have crossed
about 1000 B.C.

· Leif Ericcson and company crossed
about 1001 A.D.

· Prince Henry St. Clair may have
crossed from Scotland in 1398.

· The Cabot family crossed in 1497 and
possibly had a first voyage just before Columbus.

The Atlantic Conference will be a gathering of experts who will share
information between a variety of disciplines regarding early
trans-Atlantic contact. It will be a “cross pollination” of sorts. For
instance, we suspect than a Maritime Historian might get new ideas
about research if he or she gets access to the research of those
archeologists who found that 1,000 year old skeleton in Norway. Some
Linguists might advance their work by learning more from native tribal
leaders, etc.

The Atlantic Conference will be a meeting that welcomes a skeptical
approach and demands proofs. To that end, those who agree to speak will
also agree to post their presentations in full on our password
protected website for review 3 months in advance by the other speakers.
If the presenters decide, we will also open this part of the site up to
others whom the speakers want to allow in for peer review.

Usually, proofs follow questions and hypotheses. While we want the
facts, we also acknowledge that all the facts are not yet known. The
discovery of L'anse aux Meadows and the treatment of Helge Ingstad are
a good example of why The Atlantic Conference will also invite those
who are exploring non-traditional areas of early trans-Atlantic
contact. Their presentations will undergo a rigorous scrutiny and will
be held to the same standards as every other speaker.

The Atlantic Conference is a group of folks who share an interest in
early trans-Atlantic contact and do active field work themselves.
Though most of us are not professionals, we share a high regard for
accepted practices of scientific inquiry.

Through our contacts in setting up this conference, we have seen
extraordinary information that should, in our opinion, reach the
mainstream. Yet it is consistently held back by an academic environment
that has for a very long time enjoyed a monopoly on ideas regarding
ancient contact.

While we're not academics and are not schooled in the rigors of the
process such researchers go through to get their work out to the
mainstream, we are conservative enough to believe that we can avoid the
sloppy research processes and the lack of rigor of which ALL those
outside the mainstream academic environment are often accused.

Our intention is to help further the work of legitimate researchers who
follow scientific rigor and careful analysis.

To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry must be based on gathering
observable, empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific
principles of reasoning. Scientific method consists of the collection
of data through observation and experimentation, and the formulation
and testing of hypotheses.

We had seven speakers at the 2008 Atlantic Conference who clearly
followed Scientific method in the papers they shared. And they had the
good sense to guide the audience to possible interpretations of their
data that might contradict their hypotheses. We interspersed
presentations of Native history which has been shared orally over many
thousands of years and is, we believe, just as credible in most areas
as are carvings in stone.

We do not exist to support breathless speculation. But we will support
researchers like Helge Ingstad, the Norwegian lawyer, writer and
adventurer who followed a hunch and an ancient map to identify the
place where Vikings landed in North America 500 years before Columbus.
He was publicly embarrassed by an establishment which could not allow
one from the outside to gain credit for changing history.

We believe that, somewhere between academia and the kook fringe, there
is just enough room for the serious enquiry of heretofore unexplored
evidence. We will help to further such research by -
* Making connections between researchers which may help both in
their work.

* Identifying possible sources of funding.

* Publicizing the research of credible researchers who employ
scientific rigor.

Rick Osmon

Rich has for many years hosted a weekly radio show and blog, The Oopa
Loopa Cafe, which gives a public forum to serious researchers exploring
beyond the boundaries of everyday science. Rick was a sponsor of the
2008 Atlantic Conference and enjoyed it so much that he's taken a
leading role in the 2009 conference. His scientific standards are very
demanding. Yet his way of handling those he interviews on his weekly
show are extremely respectful. This may explain the the worldwide
respect Rick has earned. His vast connections have proven critical to
the success of the upcoming conference and the lengthy list of speakers
he's attracting.

Steve St. Clair

Steve runs a sucessful advertising firm by day and explores
difussionism in his free time. He also runs the Sinclair family
worldwide DNA project and applies a rigor to it inspired by the work of
the serious researchers who will speak at the Atlantic Conference.
Steve ran the successful 2008 conference in Halifax and is applying the
same standards in vetting the speakers for the 2009 conference. The
standards are high. The research presented will be well worth your time
in attending. To get an idea of Steve's approach, please visit the
Sinclair DNA project at the link above.

On Friday, October 21, 1966, a
mountain of coal waste, perched above the Welsh mining village of
Aberfan, broke loose and came flowing down uncontrollably.

Destabilised by recent rains, a river of black coal sludge, water and
boulders bore down on Aberfan. It steamrollered over a tiny cottage
halfway down the slope, thundered through Pantglas Junior School,
obliterated a further 20 houses - then finally came to rest.

A total of 144 people, including many children, were crushed or
suffocated to death in one of Britain's most horrific peacetime
tragedies.

Every life lost was precious. But the death of 116 innocent children,
killed in the school, tore at the very heart of the nation. In a cruel
irony, the youngsters had been making their way back to their
classrooms after singing All Things Bright And Beautiful at morning
assembly when the disaster struck.

No one in the close-knit community was unaffected by the tragedy and
the bereaved parents would never recover from their loss.

But for one family, the overriding grief was even more acute. For one
of those killed - ten-year-old Eryl Mai Jones -
had not only predicted the catastrophe, but had warned her mother of
it, too.

In the days leading up to the atrocity, Eryl had told her mother she
was 'not afraid to die'. 'I shall be with Peter and June,' she added.

Eryl's busy mother offered her imaginative daughter a lollipop and
thought no more about it. Then, on October 20, the day before the
disaster, Eryl said to her mother: 'Let me tell you about my dream last
night. I dreamt I went to school and there was no school there.
Something black had come down all over it!'

The next day, Eryl's horrific premonition came to pass and she was
killed alongside schoolfriends Peter and June. They were buried
side-by-side in a mass grave, just as the youngster had predicted.

You can only guess at the torment Eryl's mother must have suffered -
perhaps berating herself for not keeping her child off school or
warning everyone in the village.

Tales like this, of horrific events 'seen' in dreams, litter history.
And now a comprehensive new book by medical doctor Larry Dossey - who
has himself experienced premonitory dreams - collates some
of the most extraordinary examples.

SEPTEMBER 11TH

The terrorist atrocities of September 11, 2001 were preceded by a slew
of premonitions. A week before the attack, one North Carolina mother
dreamt about spinning into blackness and heard a man's voice repeating
'2,830, 2,830' and a name she couldn't make out.

'It sounded like Rooks or Horooks,' she said. Disturbed by the dream,
the woman cancelled tickets the family had to fly to Disneyland on
September 11, despite protestations from her husband that she was
over-reacting.

When news emerged on September 11 of the planes flying into New York's
Twin Towers - with another hitting the Pentagon and a fourth crashing
into a field in Pennsylvania - the woman's caution was vindicated.

Most bizarrely, 2,830 - the number repeated over and over in her
dream - was the confirmed tally of deaths at that time. And
the name - 'Rooks or Horooks?' - was that of Michael Horrocks, first
officer of United Airlines flight 175, which crashed into the South
Tower.

Of course, her vision was not specific enough for her to have done
anything to avert the tragedy, but it was nonetheless disturbing - as
was the experience of another woman holidaying in Washington DC two
weeks before the atrocity.

She was dozing in a car as her husband drove. But when she opened her
eyes, she had a vision of the Pentagon with huge billows of thick black
smoke pouring from it.

She screamed, slammed her hands on the dashboard and became so
hysterical that she hyperventilated.

The woman had had visions all her life, but was traumatised by this
one. Two weeks later, American Airlines flight 77 slammed into the
Pentagon, killing 184 people, and causing clouds of thick black smoke,
exactly as she had dreamt it.

In an even more chilling example, World Trade Centre employee Lawrence
Boisseau had a dream in September that the towers were crashing down
around him. A few days later, his wife dreamt the streets of Manhattan
were littered with debris.

The images were not specific enough to prevent Boisseau from going to
work on September 11 - and he perished there. But not before helping to
rescue several children stuck in a care centre on the ground floor.

Sometimes, premonitions allow the person to pinpoint a specific time
and place, leaving the dreamer enough time to alter the course of the
disaster.

In one such instance, Dossey recounts the tale of a mother living in
Washington State who awoke at 2.30am from a nightmare. She had dreamt
that a large chandelier that hung above her baby's crib had fallen and
crushed him.

In the dream, a violent storm was raging and the time on the clock read
4.35am. Alarmed, the woman woke up, went into the next room and took
the baby back to her bed.

Two hours later, the couple were woken by a loud crash. They dashed
into their child's room to find the crib demolished by the chandelier,
which had fallen directly onto it.

In a further twist, a storm was raging - and the time on the clock read
4.35am.

Not all of those who dream of future events manage to interpret them
correctly. Indeed, one of the common features of premonitions is that
they are often fragmentary and vague.

But Dossey believes we all have the ability to predict the future and
points to studies by Dean Radin, a Californian researcher. Radin sat
subjects in front of a blank computer screen and told them an image
would appear in five seconds.

Remarkably, before the image appeared, the subjects would become more
agitated if the image was of something grisly or upsetting than if it
was of something pleasant. It seems the subjects could sense what they
were about to be confronted with.

This is supported by data from train and plane accidents. One famous
study from the Fifties found that trains involved in accidents often
had fewer passengers than the same service the week before.

The theory is that commuters have some sense of an approaching accident
and alter their travel plans.

THE TITANIC

When the Titanic made her first - and last - voyage in
1912, many passengers had a sense of foreboding. J. P. Morgan, one of
the richest men in the world, cancelled his passage at the last minute
because of a hunch.

Interestingly, the vacancy rate on all four flights that crashed on
September 11, 2001, was high. On the Boeing 757 that crashed into the
Pentagon, only 64 of 289 seats were taken.

Meanwhile, the planes that crashed into the World Trade Centre's North
and South Towers were 74 and 81 per cent empty.

Indeed, the occupancy rate of all four doomed planes that day was a
mere 21 per cent - despite being commuter services.

Dossey's explanation for humans' ability to predict the future is
rooted in evolution. He says it makes sense that we would develop our
ability to see impending dangers and take appropriate measures.

'From the standpoint of evolutionary biology, the ability to bypass the
physical senses is the sort of ability that an intelligent,
survival-oriented organism might sooner or later develop.'

Furthermore, he believes we are more likely to have premonitions about
those to whom we are emotionally attached.

Through history, neurologists have proved a telepathic connection
between some particularly close individuals, such as twins. One of the
most common forms of premonition is forewarning of illness in a loved
one.

In November 2007, the 12-day-old twins of Hollywood actor Dennis Quaid
and his wife Kimberly were admitted to hospital in LA with suspected
bacterial infections, for which routine antibiotics were administered.

On the second day of the twins' hospitalisation, the exhausted Quaids
returned home for a few hours' rest. But at 9pm Kimberly awoke with a
sense that something was terribly wrong.

'I just had this horrible feeling come over me, and I felt like the
babies were passing. I just had this feeling of dread,' she said.

So disturbed was she that she jotted down the time: 'Nine pm. Something
happened to babies.' Yet when Quaid phoned the hospital he was told
they were fine.

In fact, they were not. The babies had been given a massive overdose of
an anti-clotting drug, which resulted in them spending 11 days in
intensive care before finally recovering.

But this sixth sense is not confined to humans. There are countless
examples of apparent premonitions among animals.

Just before the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, flamingoes on India's
southern coast fled, monkeys at Sri Lanka's Yala National Park stopped
accepting bananas from tourists and a elephants began to trumpet.

In one tale recounted by Dossey, a woman was driving her car with her
cat on the back seat. The cat became increasingly agitated, before
jumping into the front and biting the woman, forcing her to stop.

At just that moment, a large tree crashed onto the road, just a few
yards ahead of the woman. If she had continued driving, she would have
been killed.

Coincidence? Or proof of something more mysterious at work? Dossey, and
others like him, believe it is the latter.

What's more, he thinks our only hope of utilising the power of
prediction effectively is to act immediately and not let embarrassment
get in the way.

He cautions: 'If premonitions are to aid survival, we cannot afford the
luxury of thinking about them.'

They are known as Radionics, Ocilloclasts, Hieronymus machines, or more
simply, black boxes. They allegedly use ancient techniques wrapped with
the trappings of electricity and machinery of the modern era. This
highly controversial field claims to detect and modulate life force
using electronics, and numerous devices using these principals have
been built and operated over the years.

Black boxes using radionics can be traced back to the early 20th
century, but the technique call radiesthesia quite possibly has roots
as far back as ancient Egypt. Radiesthesia is a branch of the ancient
method of finding water called dowsing (water-witching) through
hand-held devices such as a forked stick, L-rods and pendulums.

The oldest known document about dowsing is a Chinese engraving from the
year 147 BC. The engraving shows the Emperor Yu (Hia dynasty, 2200 BC)
holding in his hand an instrument shaped like a tuning fork. An
inscription on the engraving states: "Yu, of the Hia dynasty, was
famous for his knowledge of the presence of mineral deposits and
sources; he could find concealed objects; he was able by his expertise
to adapt the operation of the field according to the different
seasons."

One of the first medical dowsers was L'Abbe Alexis Bouly, a Catholic
priest who lived at the turn of the 20th century in a little French
seaside village on the English Channel. For years Bouly successfully
dowsed for water and assisted in finding wells for French
manufacturers. News of his success spread across the continent and he
was contracted to find water for large factories in Belgium, Poland and
Romania.

Bouly eventually founded the Society of Friends of Radiesthesie, a
euphemism for "dowsing" using amalgam of a Latin root for 'radiation'
and a Greek root for 'perception.' It literally means "perception
of radiation." Seeking to find new uses for radiesthesia, Bouly began
to study the world of microbial vibrations.

"I was bold enough to tackle it," he once wrote, "but to start with I
had to learn about microbes, to study their nature and their influence
on the human body."

In the hospitals of Boulogne-Sur-Mer, Berck-Plage, Lille, and in the
Belgium City of Liege, Bouly carried out experiments to see if he could
detect and identify microbes by using a pendulum. In repeated tests,
Bouly was able to correctly identify different cultures of microbes in
test tubes.
In 1950, in recognition of his accomplishments, at the age of 85, Bouly
was made a Chevalier de La Legion d'Honneur, the highest decoration his
nation could bestow on him.

Radionics

It is only natural that practitioners of radiesthesia would look to
science and technology to try and improve their methods. Since
the 19th century mechanical devices using electricity had been built in
an attempt to diagnosis and cure various illnesses. Even the great
inventor Nikola Tesla had developed a line of medical devices using
infra-red and electromagnetic frequencies that were widely used by
doctors and hospitals.

Even though there were probably other machines built and used fitting
the now accepted description of a black box, the first historically
acknowledged black box was developed by Dr. Albert Abrams, an American
neurologist from San Francisco. Dr. Abrams was a highly educated
man with impeccable academic credentials from the University of
Heidelberg where he garnered top honors and even a gold medal. In 1916
Abrams published New Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment, and came up
with the term radio therapy.

According to Dr. Abrams, all diseases have their own "vibratory rate"
that can be measured and treated. Diseased body tissue affects the
nervous
system and produces 'dull emanations.' Dr. Abrams thought that an
electrical phenomenon was involved and he invented a variable
resistance instrument to measure the ohm resistance of different
diseases on an electronic circuit.

With radio therapy it's thought that every person's energy patterns or
rhythms are as unique to them as their fingerprints, and that every
part of their body, down to the cell level, reflects these vibrations.
When illness, injury, infection, stress, pollution, malnutrition, or
poor hygiene cause these patterns to become imbalanced or interrupted
the energy is altered. This altered energy pattern can be read from any
part of the body and treated by sending messages, with an instrument,
to the body in order that the body may heal itself through the restored
flow of energy.

Abrams' diagnostic equipment consisted primarily of a variety of simple
resistance boxes, often called Reflexophones, wired in series. A
typical setup included the "dynamizer," which was a sample holder with
3 electrodes. The patient's blood sample on paper was placed on two
electrodes to ground and the third electrode was connected to the
"rheostatic dynamizer." This, in turn, was connected to the "vibratory
rate rheostat," which was connected to the "measuring rheostat." The
final connection was to an electrode on the forehead of a healthy third
party. The healthy individual (called a reagent) would "react"
biologically through the central nervous system to the diseased
vibrations.

For example, Dr. Abrams found that cancer produced a 50 ohm resistance,
while syphilis had a 55 ohm resistance. Abrams later modified his
technique so he could take readings from a drop of blood.

Dr. Abrams had another device called an oscilloclast which he used to
cure patients. This machine supposedly transmitted back at the diseased
tissue the same electronic vibrations it was emitting until the patient
was "clear" of the electronic reactions in the reagent.

The term "Radionics" was invented by students of Abrams by combining
the two words "radiation" and "electronics." This implies that in
radionics it is possible to measure a fine "radiation" with "electronic
instruments" designed specifically for the purpose.

In 1924, the year of Abrams' death a committee of the Royal Society of
Medicine under the Chairmanship of Sir Thomas (later Lord) Horder
investigated his claims. To the astonishment of medicine and science,
the committee, after exhaustive tests, had to admit that Abrams'
devices did operate as claimed.

Black boxes have continued to develop beyond the devices used only for
medical diagnosis and treatment. Instruments for use in agriculture,
mining, photography, and even more esoteric uses such as time travel,
are being successfully used on a world-wide basis.

On September 27th, 1949 a U.S. patent was granted to Dr. Thomas Galen
Hieronymous of Advanced Sciences Research and Development at Lakemont,
Georgia. Dr. Hieronymus has the unique distinction of having the
only U.S. patent of a psychically operating machine.

What Dr. Hieronymus invented was a machine to detect the type and
quantity of any material under scrutiny by analyzing the radiation that
emanates from all material; a radiation that he termed as "Eloptic"
radiation. The word is taken from the first two letters of electricity
and the word optic, because the energy has some, but not all, of the
characteristics of both those forms of energy. His main idea was
that the experimenter became a part of his own machine, bridging the
physical and quantum worlds.

Patent number 2,482,773 was awarded after three years of careful study
by the United States Patent Office. There are strict guidelines
that must be observed before a patent is awarded. A "utility
patent" for a machine must be something new, unusual, and
unobvious. As well, the invention had to be useful for at least
one authentic thing that could not be done before. Dr. Hieronymus
did not need to explain how it worked, only to prove that it worked
sufficiently enough to have undeniable merit.

The Hieronymous machine used a rubbing plate so that when it was tuned
to resonance with the object being analyzed and when the circuitry
sensed a "signal," the smooth connection between the operator's fingers
and a touch pad became tacky or suddenly developed a sticky feel. Until
this point the standard instrument indicator mechanism had been an
audible sound or a visual indicator such as a needle deflection (as in
a multimeter) or a flashing light.

The former editor of Analog Magazine, John Campbell, once built a
Hieronymus device and successfully tested it. Campbell recognized that
modern physics couldn't explain how the device was able to operate. In
an exchange with Arthur Young, Young suggested to Campbell that it was
the mind of the operator that made the device function, and that it was
the symbolic form of the device that dynamically functioned to make it
work. This appeared particularly significant to Campbell since he had
discovered he could make the device work even though disconnected from
its power supply.

Campbell decided to test this thesis and he carefully drew on paper in
a schematic diagram of the amplifier, removed the actual amplifier
hardware, and substituted the schematic drawing. To his amazement, the
device worked just as it had done before the amplifier was removed.

Unfortunately, these are the type of results that have earned Black
Boxes the wraith of government agencies such as the FDA who have
branded them all as fake and incapable of working as claimed.
However, those who work with the devices present some compelling
evidence to the otherwise.

In the Cumberland Valley, a scientist from the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau
put a photo of an insect infested field into a Black Box; along with it
they put a tiny amount of insecticide. Forty-eight hours later, the
insects in the infected field, many miles away, were all dead.
Because of this, the Farm Bureau wanted exclusive use of the device in
Pennsylvania.

The Monterey County Farm Bureau said that they had been using radionic
control on cotton...and found no occasion to use insecticide On
untreated fields, however, their cost for insecticide was in excess of
$26 an acre. John Campbell wrote in Analog that: "This machine is
almost pure magic! In the old real sense it cast spells, imposes death
magic and can be used for life magic! The machine works beautifully."

For anyone interested in working with a Black Box a positive attitude
is all that is necessary for positive results. As well, a Black Box
provides a reliable scientific control, with a high probability of
success, from which to begin training in mental visualization.
Whether the machine works on its own, or if it works because one
believes it works, is not known.

One engineer reported that a physics instructor from a local university
bought in a Black Box and demonstrated how it worked. After a
successful demonstration the instructor removed the back of the machine
and showed that the circuitry had been removed and in its place was a
circuit diagram drawn on a piece of white card. The wires from the
input coil were attached to the edge of this card to coincide with the
circuit diagram input and likewise with the output connection. The
diagram included the standard symbol for a battery. Strangely,
when the schematic battery symbol was erased, the machine would not
work. When the symbol was put back in, it operated as before.

Black Boxes have been used by various people to detect the type and
quantity of unknown materials. It has been used for detecting and
diagnosing energy flaws in animals and plants, measuring vital signs of
remote individuals, perform dowsing, chakra location and
healing. Who knows what new purposes may be discovered by
individuals with open minds. Communication with other states of
reality, finding lost objects or even people, communication or travel
through time?

The future prospects for radionics, psionics and Black Boxes are
hindered only by a lack of imagination from individuals who fail to
look beyond the current "comfort zone" of scientific understanding.
Only by daring to dream can we hope to find a new and better
understanding of our world, our universe and the amazing scientific
principles that are yet to be discovered.

Source: Conspiracy Journal
www.conspircyjournal.com

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HISTORIES MYSTERIES DEPARTMENT -

Italian Scientist
Reproduces Shroud of Turin

An Italian scientist says he has reproduced the Shroud of Turin, a feat
that he says proves definitively that the linen some Christians revere
as Jesus Christ's burial cloth is a medieval fake.

The shroud, measuring 14 feet, 4 inches by 3 feet, 7 inches bears the
image, eerily reversed like a photographic negative, of a crucified man
some believers say is Christ.

"We have shown that is possible to reproduce something which has the
same characteristics as the Shroud," Luigi Garlaschelli, who is due to
illustrate the results at a conference on the para-normal this weekend
in northern Italy, said on Monday.

A professor of organic chemistry at the University of Pavia,
Garlaschelli made available to Reuters the paper he will deliver and
the accompanying comparative photographs.

The Shroud of Turin shows the back and front of a bearded man with long
hair, his arms crossed on his chest, while the entire cloth is marked
by what appears to be rivulets of blood from wounds in the wrists, feet
and side.

Carbon dating tests by laboratories in Oxford, Zurich and Tucson,
Arizona in 1988 caused a sensation by dating it from between 1260 and
1390. Sceptics said it was a hoax, possibly made to attract the
profitable medieval pilgrimage business.

But scientists have thus far been at a loss to explain how the image
was left on the cloth.

Garlaschelli reproduced the full-sized shroud using materials and
techniques that were available in the middle ages.

They placed a linen sheet flat over a volunteer and then rubbed it with
a pigment containing traces of acid. A mask was used for the face.

The pigment was then artificially aged by heating the cloth in an oven
and washing it, a process which removed it from the surface but left a
fuzzy, half-tone image similar to that on the Shroud. He believes the
pigment on the original Shroud faded naturally over the centuries.

They then added blood stains, burn holes, scorches and water stains to
achieve the final effect.

The Catholic Church does not claim the Shroud is authentic nor that it
is a matter of faith, but says it should be a powerful reminder of
Christ's passion.

One of Christianity's most disputed relics, it is locked away at Turin
Cathedral in Italy and rarely exhibited. It was last on display in 2000
and is due to be shown again next year.

Garlaschelli expects people to contest his findings.

"If they don't want to believe carbon dating done by some of the
world's best laboratories they certainly won't believe me," he said.

The accuracy of the 1988 tests was challenged by some hard-core
believers who said restorations of the Shroud in past centuries had
contaminated the results.

The history of the Shroud is long and controversial.

After surfacing in the Middle East and France, it was brought by
Italy's former royal family, the Savoys, to their seat in Turin in
1578. In 1983 ex-King Umberto II bequeathed it to the late Pope John
Paul.

The Shroud narrowly escaped destruction in 1997 when a fire ravaged the
Guarini Chapel of the Turin cathedral where it is held. The cloth was
saved by a fireman who risked his life.

Garlaschelli received funding for his work by an Italian association of
atheists and agnostics but said it had no effect on his results.

"Money has no odor," he said. "This was done scientifically. If the
Church wants to fund me in the future, here I am."

Yes, having investigated sightings of big-cats, werewolves,
Bigfoot-type beasts, over-sized snakes, wallabies, wild boar, and much
more in the woods of the area, I know that the Cannock Chase is spooky!

But, this time, it's not me making the statement. Rather, the local
press are highlighting the fact.

Just a few days ago, I was contacted by Annette Belcher, one of the
writers at the local Stafford Post newspaper, who asked for a
comment-or-two from me about this latest development; and which, of
course, I was pleased to provide.

Here's an extract from Annette's article, so you'll have a full
understanding of what this new story is all about:

"It’s official - the Chase has been hailed one of the spookiest places
in the country. The beauty spot, which stretches through Stafford, is
renowned for its werewolf sightings, according to a latest paranormal
study. It is all revealed in the work of paranormal researcher Lionel
Fanthorpe, 74, from Cardiff. The study looks into paranormal events in
the UK during the past 25 years. The study provides a breakdown of
Britain’s spookiest places and focuses upon unexplained incidents
reported to the police and leading paranormal organisations since the
1980s. There have been 21 reported cases of werewolf sightings, with
the Cannock Chase werewolf being the most renowned."

But, hang on, I haven't quite finished yet...!

Over the last decade or so, intriguing reports have surfaced - from the
many and varied little pools and ponds that can be found in, around,
and on the outskirts of, the Cannock Chase - of sightings of exotic
fish, crocodilians and much more of a distinctly out-of-place, aquatic
nature. Without doubt, the most famous example of such activity
occurred a number of years back at a small and semi-secluded body of
water known as the Roman View Pond - that exists on the fringes of
Cannock.

It was from there, in the hot summer of 2003, that hysterical rumors
wildly spread around the town of Cannock to the effect that a giant,
marauding crocodile was on the loose. Local police, representatives of
the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), and
the nation’s media all quickly descended upon the scene, as they
valiantly and collectively sought to ascertain the truth about what, at
a local level, fast (and inevitably!) became known to one and all as
the "Cannock Nessie."

Of course, the facts were somewhat more sober and down to earth. As my
good friends Jonathan Downes and Richard Freeman of the Center for
Fortean Zoology demonstrated to practically everyone’s satisfaction
when they visited the area at the height of the sightings, the "beast"
was likely nothing stranger than a three-foot-long Spectacled Caiman –
a crocodilian reptile found throughout much of Central and South
America.

It was the conclusion of Jon and Richard that the unfortunate creature
had probably been housed locally by an unknown exotic-pet-keeper – that
is, until it grew to a point where it became completely unmanageable,
and was then unceremoniously dumped in the pool late one night and
under the protective cover and camouflage of overwhelming darkness.

Almost certainly, Jon believed, the creature would not survive the
harsh autumn and winter months that were destined to follow. And, sure
enough, as the English weather changed for the worse, sightings of the
mysterious beast came to an abrupt end.

Nevertheless, whenever I am back in the area, I always stop off at the
pool and cast a careful eye firmly in its dark direction – just in case
something monstrous and unholy decides to once again surface from the
depths and put in a brief appearance.

So, why - you may well ask - am I bringing this up now?

Simple: there has been a new development of a very similar nature at
yet another body of water in the area: a small, 3-meter-deep pool that
is hidden in a corner of the Brickworks Nature Reserve at Wimblebury -
which is only a stone's throw from the heart of the Cannock Chase.

As the Chase Post newspaper notes, up until recently "...the only
things lurking in the murky waters were six bicycles, a shopping
trolley and scaffolding poles."

But all that recently changed, as the Post also notes in a brand new
story.

Cannock Chase Council officials, concerned about vegetation dying, have
made a startling discovery, says the Post.

The Post explains that amongst the usual debris and rubbish, "...there
were fish in the water, lots of fish - 20,000, to be precise. Even more
baffling, there were not just native species: as well as roach and
perch, ornamental varieties such as brown goldfish and koi carp were
found."

The Post expands further: "Ray Smythe, clerk at Heath Hayes and
Wimblebury Parish Council, said: 'No one knows how on earth they got
there. We can only think someone released them, but I’d be surprised if
anyone knew the pool was there.'

"Members of Stoke-on-Trent Angling Society have been drafted in to net
the mystery fish - and move them to nearby Milking Brook. A spokesman
for the club confirmed the operation had been a success. He said: 'We
estimated that around 20,000 fish were transferred to Milking Brook.
This needed three journeys, which, in each case, involved three tanks
full of fish. I can confirm very few fatalities occurred during the
operation.'"

There's little doubt - as Jon and Richard's fine detective work
demonstrated a few years ago - that someone was even then releasing
exotic creatures into the pools of the Cannock Chase. Whether or not
this latest development is directly linked to the earlier activity - or
if it's an example of someone else adding to the ever-growing body of
out-of-place animals that inhabit the Cannock Chase - is something that
remains to be seen.

But, this new story only reinforces what I said at the beginning of
this blog-post: Cannock Chase is spooky! And long may it remain so!

I've noted before (in earlier issues of the North American BioFortean
Review) sightings of large bipedal reptiles (some "dinosaur"-like, some
not) from various parts of North America. The most interesting reports
have come from the Pagosa Springs, Colorado, area, neatly summarized by
Nick Sucik in a chapter in Cryptozoology and the Investigation of
Lesser-Known Mystery Animals. More recently, I had opportunity to
gather details on another sighting, from Wyoming, which puts me in mind
of those Pagosa Springs reports.

The witness, Anita R., contacted me for help in soliciting information
about a strange animal she and her mother had seen while driving on
Route 80, west of Rawlins, Wyoming (the largest town in that area). As
there are several likely hoaxes of this kind (again, see Nick's
review), the first thing I did was determine that, in fact, the witness
was who she said she was. With that determined, (and full contact
information on file) I could start piecing together her story and get
the pertinent details. What follows is the initial description in her
own words (with minimal editing), followed by clarifications based on
my questions.

1. "[Near] the end of April, 2003, while traveling in Wyoming, my
mother and I had quite an experience. A creature of some sort, which
looked prehistoric, came down in front of our car. It kept its head in
the shadows but it was shaped like a head of a kangaroo. It had big
feet and small, short arms. Its tail was like that of an alligator and
the top of his tail was as wide as my car. [ed.: refers to length of
tail.] There is no explanation why we didn't hit it. We swerved,
slammed on brakes, but no matter what we did it stayed about two inches
away from my car. After sloshing it's tail back and forth one time, in
a single leap it was gone and out of sight. This happened on I-80 about
40 miles west of Sinclair, Wyoming. ... I did find a woman truck driver
who had seen it and said it was a common sighting there, and people
called it the big green dinosaur, even though it was more grayish in
color.

"Thank you for any information. My mother and I have been trying to
find out what this is for 5 years now."

2. "Chad, I am no artist and I have no way to scan a picture, but I
will try to describe what we saw as best as I can. At first it was in
the median and we were in the far right hand lane. It was dark, but we
saw the shadow of its head, shaped like the head of a kangaroo. Within
two seconds it was landing in front of the car. We did not see it jump
and it was just coming down in front of the carr. It never touched the
ground that we saw, it was rather chaotic! First we saw its feet. They
were like huge crocodile or alligator feet. Then we saw his lower body
and all of its tail. The tail was scaly, ... about five feet long, best
guess. ... When it was landing, it came down sideways. Its body was
shaped like the pictures you see of dinosaurs. It was huge to us, but
not like in movies where they are as tall as buildings. We estimate it
was about 7 feet tall. Its head stayed well above the top of our car
and judging by as much of it that was inches from us we guess it at 7
feet tall. ...

"Thank you for listening to our story. People don't believe us and it
gets frustrating trying to learn what it is. Also, I would like to know
how it survives, as it was totally barren land for miles and miles."

3. "It was about 10:30 pm. I was driving a 1995 Chevy Lumina 4-door
sedan with my headlights on. There was a semi the equivalent of two
blocks ahead of us. I was heading east on I-80 and was approximately 40
miles west of Sinclair, Wyoming. When first noticing it at all, it was
crouched down in the median and we had a perfect view of the outline of
its head. The closest we can compare the shape of its head to is like a
kangaroo. We were driving 80-85 mph. Upon seeing it in the median, I
hit my brakes rather hard because I did not want to hit it if it
jumped. As I was braking, it had apparently jumped. We didn't see it
jump, we only saw it coming down in front of the car. At this point I
was probably at 25-30 mph and still slowing. The only distance between
it and us was the front end of the car, as it was right up against it.
I veered left then right, but it stayed directly in front of us anyway.
We could have counted what we call scales had we have had more time, as
it was in plain sight. We did see its entire body up close with the
exception of its head. The tail came straight off the body, and was
covered with rough scales over the entire tail and had the points of
scales coming off the edges. The scales were almost inverted
triangular-shaped, not quite diamond-shaped. The legs were not scaly,
they were 'rough' skin, like elephants have. I don't know another way
to describe it. The feet were long, wide, and flat, also rough in
appearance. It had toes, though there was not enough time to count
them. I would guess from the short amount of time we had to see it all,
that it was either four or five toes. On the toes were wide nails, but
they weren't very long.

"The width of the top of the tail was wider than its upper body. The
underside of its body did not have scales. His stomach area was rough,
leathery skin, but smoother than it's legs. Its back was not covered
with scales like the tail, but there were points sticking up on its
back, which was also leathery.

"Its forelimbs were short and narrow, not like the legs which were
thick and heavy. The forelimbs hung down at the 'elbow' joint. After it
'swiped' its tail back and forth one time, it ascended until it was out
of sight. The feet never touched the ground. We estimate it to be
around 7 feet tall. It does not have a long neck.

"Apparently this was all watched by the truck driver in front of us, as
they almost jack-knifed while this was going on. We attempted to catch
up with the driver to confer with them about what we saw, but even at
high speeds, he couldn't be caught.

"While we were terrified, afraid of hitting it, we were so amazed we
noticed every detail. It is gray in color, the scales being 2 shades of
gray. That's the best way I know how to describe what we saw. Again I
want to mention that a female truck driver online that travels that
area frequently, when I asked her if she'd seen anything weird there,
her comment was, 'You mean the big green dinosaur?... You should try
stopping with a fully loaded trailer'... but, it isn't green. It is
gray. At least what we saw and when we saw it, it was gray."

4. "I know the lady truck driver I spoke to online said she had to stop
for it before with a fully loaded semi. She also stated that every time
an alternative route was available, she took it because everyone knew
how that would jump in front of your vehicle. ????? She's the only
person I've ever talked with that had seen it or heard about it. Keep
in mind, I didn't tell her what we saw, I only asked if she had ever
been on that stretch of I-80 and had she ever seen anything strange.
Her reply was, 'you mean the big green dinosaur?' It's not green
though. It is gray. So that was confirmation and corroboration."

5. "The nails didn't extend out like long claws. We saw its right foot
up close and personal. The closest in that movie [ed.: Jurassic Park]
to compare it to is something they called raptors, but the feet were
different. In the movie, their toes were more separated, spread apart,
than what we saw. I am sure there is a logical explanation, but I don't
know the first thing about 'dinosaurs.' We had only seen them in
commercials or on billboards out west. Being from the south, it was new
to us. Out west here, it is a tourist attraction. We didn't have any
prior exposure to dinosaur phenomena or publicity. It did not look like
an iguana or crocodile or anything familiar. It looks like what you see
on the billboards here for the exhibits."

As it currently stands, the incident joins a number of others that seem
to suggest the presence of a large bipedal reptile in certain western
states. It doesn't immediately suggest a viable conventional
explanation, though of course, any skeptic could toss it aside as a
loose kangaroo, monitor lizard, or the like. Obviously, all caveats
about witnesses and brief anomalous sightings apply. At this point, I
don't see any reason to force a specific explanation on it, without a
great deal more investigation taking place.

Anita and her mother have no idea what it was they saw, but are very
curious about it. They have looked at a number of reptile and dinosaur
images to see if anything looks similar, but with no exact matches.
They do think the general body structure (particularly the feet)
matches a reconstruction of Parasaurolophus on the UK NHM site, but
that the head was more elongated, similar to a reconstructed image of
Nanotyrannus. At this point, I prefer not to force morphological
specifics in absence of a physical specimen, and suggest the following
steps need to be taken.

First, with regard to what may be local folklore of this animal, if one
female trucker in the region is familiar with it, there should be other
stories. My initial attempts to solicit information from that area have
been unsuccessful, primarily because I'm working from the other side of
the country. An on-site regional ethnozoological investigation is
necessary to determine to what extent these stories are being spread
(from both a geographic and phenological perspective). With more data,
assuming that there is a discernible recent pattern in sightings, it
should then be possible to set up a project specifically to obtain a
specimen or other physical confirmation. (What we don't need are
projects set up to acquire circumstantial and non-confirmative
evidence.) Admittedly, this means consistent long-term field research
in an out-of-the-way spot, on a mystery animal that has very little
history in cryptozoological investigations. It might be better to start
off seeking further local sighting accounts, then offering a full
report to regional media services in hopes that local residents will
keep an eye out for the animal and perhaps aid in acquiring a specimen.

I will note one geographic 'coincidence' with this sighting. If you
look up Rawlins, Montana, on Google maps, you'll find that it is almost
directly north of (with most of a state between) Pagosa Springs,
Colorado. Without visiting these two areas, I can't immediately
correlate habitat or other ecological factors, but that may be worth
further investigation.

In any case, further sightings of this type would be of great interest
to the author, and will be passed along to these witnesses, as they are
eager to find a solution to this mystery.